A bountiful (and cheap) harvest

We went to the Policia Internacional and the Civil Registrar today. The first stop took about 45 minutes. The second stop... took forever. We stood in line for something like 2 and a half hours, got some paperwork, waited a little while longer, then got fingerprinted. Which took another ten minutes to clean up.

But, after that (and quite a bit of lost-like wandering around) we found the market that we briefly visited on Saturday. And this time, we bought stuff. We spent somewhere around $2.50 or $3.00, and got: six Roma tomatoes, two Hass avocados, mushrooms, spring onions, garlic, a white onion, three bell peppers (red, green and orange), close to a pound of pasta... and my favorites: a pound of raspberries and close to a pound of cherries.

Very nice.

Prices for produce are much, much higher in grocery stores -- closer to US prices. According to Bruce, residents of Santiago tend to see going to the market as lower class. I am not sure why. Better prices, better produce. Seems like a win-win to me.

Jason